Like a lot of bankers, it isn't unusual for John Dollinger to end the day with soil from a farm field on his dress shoes. The difference is, it's from his own fields. He farms 3,000 acres of corn and soybeans with his...

When Jeff Reints started strip-tilling nearly a decade ago, he used a homemade rig built with parts he already had. He built a strip-till bar using shanks to deep-place liquid fertilizer in the fall...

When Iowa farmer Keith Schwandt designed his new seed tender, he wanted the advantages of bulk seed and fast refills without the cost of a central-fill seed system on his 24-row planter. Now it takes him just 15...

Imagine you're planting down the middle of your local high school football field. With John Deere/Bauer Built's newest planter, the DB120, you'd only have 20 ft. from each outside row unit to the sidelines — thanks to...

No one can say Tim Renger played favorites when he built a 13-row strip-till machine with help from his father Walter. The Bancroft, IA, farmer pulled parts from several manufacturers' shelves, plus added some custom...

Roundup Ready soybeans still may be the easiest to grow, but not necessarily the most economical anymore, according to Grover Shannon, University of Missouri (MU) agronomist at the Delta Research Center. As chemical...